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[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Wrong method (you don't need to do that much work).

1) You do not need to root before flashing a new ROM.

2-3) Do not bother with install CWM or ROM Manager to the Nook.

Instead, get an image for a 3.0.1.0 bootable uSD card from:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11999569&postcount=4

Download the appropriately sized image and use Win32DiskImager (from softpedia.org) to burn that image to your uSD card connected to your PC with a uSD reader and not a built-in card reader.

Then, copy the ROM install zip to the same uSD card.

Read the following linked post, it uses different words than mine, and reading both will make it clear:

Faceman66's Complete Method for Installing CM7

My post above is an answer to the quoted post. It is not a complete method. Faceman66's linked post is the complete method.
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
Thanks for the help. Was trying to stay away from using a bootable sd card as I don't have a spare one sitting around. Also I'm used to using a recovery installed directly on a device (have 3 android phones and a GTablet all set up that way.) Guess they aren't really expensive now so can probably go get one. Have to buy a card reader too.

I understand everything in the posts you linked, seems pretty straight forward. Will proceed down that route towards getting this set up.

Again, thanks for the help (button pushed)
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
Thanks, Adude. Just like quinxy, I'm looking for the basic steps to install CWM so that I can install phiremod's nook V5.3 and CM7 RC4 Base in one shabang. I haven't played with CWM yet so the concept is bit confusing to me atm. I will try the method you posted.

What's the difference between using my computer's built in card reader and a USB reader?
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
I am just passing on reports that for some reason, built-in readers often do not work correctly in writing an image that is the entire card (with several partitiions in the image, etc.).

Please read faceman66's more specific and clearer directions in the link above ending with "#151"
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Autonooter runs from a bootable uSD card, you have to burn it in just the same way as CWM.

Otherwise, I could understand that the work to do extra steps of rooting and installing ROM Manager and CWM on the Nook, could be less work than going to a store to get a uSD card (not to mention cost).

(AFAIK, rooting a Nook is dependent on the concept that the Nook always checks the uSD card when booting.)
[Nook Color Android Development] noisufnoc:
I've been trying to get this type of setup working my my NC too. I found a work around by using the boot menu to select between SD card or eMMC. I'd really like to be able to use CWM from the eMMC and just use my SD card for storage, like I do on my phone.
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
Well, I can get into CWM Recovery by booting from the SD, but once in CWM Recovery, I cannot flash any zips as it is unable to detect the SD card. Mounting option from CWM does not work either. I suspect repartitioning to the EXT4 format is needed at some point in there too.

Still reading to try to find the solution to my problem, but any help would be appreciated.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
I dont understand where the problem is? Are you not able to boot into CWM when booting up by holding the power and home? There is a flashable zip that installs nemiths latest CWM to your emmc boot in the OP or you can mount boot and place it there yourself via instructions in OP.
[Nook Color Android Development] fwdixon:
Cannot boot into internal cwm for any reason. Power +n, power+n+vol, reboot into recovery from cm7, reboot into recovery from rom manager, nothing.

bootable cwm sd works fine.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
Same here. I manually pushed everything, ran the update zip, used Rom Manager, all to no avail. I can only get into recovery using a bootable CWM SD, which defeats the entire purpose of this thread in terms of installing and getting away from the SD.

I am running Phiremod, but the ROM being used should not matter at all.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] woot1524:
I actually made a post with this info many pages back, but here it is again.

What boot screen are you getting? If it's anything other than "Thouch the future of reading", your boot/recovery files are messed up.

This proccess worked for me twice.

boot a CWM SD-card with Root-safe CWM removal tool, CWM 3.0.1.0 flashable .zip, and the latest kernel from Dalingrin for your system

Remove CWM with the root-safe removal tool (search for it in Dev forum)

Flash CWM 3.0.1.0 .zip

Flash the OC kernel to replace files that the CWM removal tool deletes.

That should do it.
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
I'm in the same boat here too.

I booted into recovery via SD CWM, wiped system/data/cache, flashed CWM for eMMC, flashed ROM, unmounted SD card and rebooted. Booted into the ROM just fine (obviously meaning it flashed to internal memory w/out problem). I cannot get to eMMC CWM tho. Nook/Power buttons does not work nor does trying to reboot to recovery from Rom Manager.

Going forward, I suppose I'm OK w/ using SD recovery method to flash new ROMs, but as I do not have a spare SD card, doing this becomes tedious (as I plan to use my SD card as storage in between flashing ROMs). I know, I should just buy another card, but I'm cheap.

Gotta say, I think I'm starting to understand the processes required to load ROMs on the NC, but damn, it's a LOT bigger pain in the butt than any of my other Android devices (EVO, EPIC, Hero and GTab).

Appreciate all the help/info so far.
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
OK, I may be dumb but I'm not stupid. :)

My NC must still have the incorrect recovery kernel, even though I've flashed the eMMC zip from the OP, which I thought had the correct kernel in it. I have NOT used dual boot (which was thought to have been at least 1 cause of this incorrect kernel situation). Who knows what else I've done that may have left me in this situation. When I get home today, I'll any number of the various flash-the-correct-recovery-kernel ideas mentioned around here and see if that helps. I may even go so far as to restore to stock and start over.

Still learning...hopefully by posting my experiences with this helps some of the other folks who are stuck not being able to boot to internal recovery.
[Nook Color Android Development] noisufnoc:
I think my problem was that I had two different versions of CWM going on here. I just updated using the .zip file method in the original post and now I can go into Rom Manager and successfully boot into recovery w/o needing to use the boot manager.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
I used a 8gb 3.0.1.0 CWM boot SD Img. It has never said "Touch the future of reading". It says loading without the SD in and boots Android, and Loading with skulls and crossbones with the SD in which then goes to recovery.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
Same issues. Does your NC with the SD card in start up by saying "Loading" with skulls and crossbones, or saying "Touch the future of reading"? Mine says the former and will not do anything related to recovery without using a CWM boot SD.

Maybe someone can point us out to a correct boot SD image as I followed directions from the UnLocker.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
The 8gb 3.0.1.0 CWM boot SD Img is for making an SD card. You then use that SD card to flash your Nook with whatever you want on your Nook.
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
I gotta be honest...I can't remember for sure. It's at home, I'm at work, and I did sooooo much stuff to that thing last night that who really knows what it does when it boots. I think it boots w/ the Future of Reading stuff, which is why I'm confused, because that would indicate I have the correct recovery kernel but still cannot boot to eMMC recovery. Hell, I'm not even sure I tried all of the various key suggestions (power+N, power+n til it turns off then power, use your left little finger in power and right middle finger on N :) )

I'll be sure to post back here this evening after I've had a chance to screw it up, I mean, take corrective action.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Okay.

Previously you stated:

So I gave you the procedure to flash a new ROM to it, and you report that it worked.

Flashing CWM recovery to a Nook, so that you do not have to use an SD card, is a second procedure.

You need to put Muffin's zip file on the CWM sd card, and flash it to the Nook.

It is in the first post in the thread, under:
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
Yes, I know. I used it to flash many ROMs. I am currently with Phiremod 5.3. The SD Card img I used does NOT boot with "Touch the Future of Reading", but with "Loading" with skulls and crossbones. If I have the SD Card in, it goes to CWM 3.0.1.0 which works absolutely fine. I have Phiremod flashed to the Nook and not an SD Card.

What this setup means is that if I reboot the Nook, it will ALWAYS go into recovery if the SD Card is in. So I need to pop it while it initially starts, then pop in the SD card once Android starts booting.

I am looking for a way to flash recovery to the Nook directly so that I can have a normal SD Card that can stay in ALL the TIME, just like my Android phones.

I, and others, need help on trying to figure out how to get CWM 3.0.1.0 flashed internally so as to not need an SD Card to access recovery.

Any help appreciated.

It seems to me that the SD Image I used might not have correctly written what it needs to the Nook. I want to know how I can get my Nook to the correct state so that I can eventually 1) run CWM without boot SD Card, and then run my backup to reinstall my Phiremod 5.3 setup.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
Understand completely, and I appreciate your help to date. I certainly wouldn't have figured out the ROM flashing out as quickly w/out your help.

As for the CWM flash, I could swear that was one of the things I had done last night too. I say this as I'm pretty sure I'm getting the Future of Reading screen when it boots up. Am starting to wonder whether I followed the correct key combination procedure while attempting to boot to Recovery w/out the SD card. To be completely honest, I think I've read about 5 different combinations of keys, how long to hold them, etc and I'm certain that I wasn't aware of all of these last night. I'll verify this evening and post results.

Thanks (and Thank button) once again. I have 5 Android devices and you folks on the NC forum have been great to a guy trying to understand how Android flashing functions on this device.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Take the card that boots with "Loading" and skull and crossbones.

Add to that card the zip file from the first post in this thread in the section:

Follow the directions in that section.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
Did that. Also manually ADB'd the CWM img and kernel. Even did removeCWM, flashed the zip and updated the kernel. Do any of these, then remove the SD card, load into android, then select reboot into recovery either by Rom Manager or the power off dialog and it just restarts the Nook and loads up Phiremod 5.3

Nothing works.

Also, assuming I get this to work one day, does the non-CWM SD card need to have specific files on it to work? It is just a regularly formatted 32gb card.

Thanks for your help. Just annoying as I have tried so many things.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] woot1524:
Ok, here's a guide to flash CWM 3.0.1.0 onto the eMMC.

1: If you do not have any version of CWM on your eMMC. Meaning you never EVER installed it ever.

Step 1: create a bootable CWM SD-card. It doesn't matter what version of CWM. You can use the images from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=922870

Step 2: Download the Flashable .zip of CWM 3.0.1.0 from the first post of this thread.

Step 3: Copy said .zip file onto the root dir. of your bootable CWM SD-card

Step 4: Boot to SD-card

Step 5: Flash the .zip file

Done

2: If you have installed a previous version of CWM on your eMMC (such as 3.0.0.6) or tried to install CWM via Rom-manager, again on your eMMC. And now you cannot boot into CWM via pwr+home. OR when you boot the eMMC(internal) and have anything other than 'touch the future of reading' as the first splash screen.

Step 1: Have a bootable CWM SD-card, any version will work.

Step 2: Get the recovery repair flashable .zip from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=958748

Step 3: Boot to SD-card

Step 4: Flash recovery repair .zip

3: If 2 did not work for you. AKA you still cannot boot into CWM on the eMMC with pwr+home.

Step 1: Have a bootable CWM SD-card, any version will work

Step 2: Get the CWM root-safe removal tool from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914690

Step 3: Get the CWM 3.0.1.0 flashable .zip from the first post of this thread.

Step 4: Get the kernel for your specific system from dalingrin's thread, which is here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925451

Step 5: boot CWM SD-card

Step 6: Flash CWM root-safe removal tool

Step 7: Flash CWM 3.0.1.0 .zip

Step 8: Flash your specific kernel you got on step 4.

Step 9: Reboot

2 and 3 also will fix most 'stuck at 'n' screen' and 'stuck at 'touch the future of reading''

I hope this clears everything up.
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
Easiest fix right here. Seems some CWM imgs have removed the nook's ability to load to recovery. This also fixes the power + "n" recovery method.

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Woot1524,

Can you make this one post of yours a separate thread with a carefully thought out TITLE ?

That will make it easier for noobies weeks or months from now.

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] woot1524:
It really belongs in here, to be honest. I mean it's only a guide, nothing much of substance for the Dev. forum. I guess I can post it in the general forum, just so it's searchable.
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Maybe nemith will agree to add it to the OP (despite it being somewhat long) ?

It really does not matter if it pushes all that older discusssion posts further down the page...
[Nook Color Android Development] woot1524:
Well a copy of my guide has been posted to the general forum, where it will live on in a much more noticable fashion.
[Nook Color Android Development] fulanito01:
Thanks Woot for that nicely worded guide. Would have helped me take the plunge earlier, but instruction set 1 were the exact steps I followed last night to get clockwork recovery up and running on internal memory. Like others, I was running off a bootable clockwork card, and it wasn't immediately clear what the result of flashing the zip file would be (after attempting and failing using other methods and ending up with boot loops). Thanks to the OP, Muffin, and all the patient XDA members in here.
[Nook Color Android Development] kc_hubbard:
This worked. Was able to boot into eMMC CWM after I was done. Have not flashed a ROM from here yet as I was up too late the last 2 nites working on this for my wife. I now have a functioning Nook android tablet that she can use.

Once again, thanks (buttons pushed again) to ADude and woot1524 who helped me get thru this. Glad to hear that this post has been copied up front for everyone to read. I think it will help lots of us Nook Noobs. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] Ceger:
Duh... Link might help.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=958748

Ceger
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
Will this method flash the applied ROM to the emmc or the SD card?

Sorry for the stupid question. I just got a new SD card and want to install "tablet tweaks" to emmc. Still foggy on the CWM on emmc vs SD card topic.

Can I just switch out the contained kernel in the "tablet tweaks" zip with Dalingrin's kernel and it will install okay?
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
Tried this tonight and failed miserably. I used the instructions above so I have a bootable CWM SD card. I put cm nightly 36 on it and flashed. First reboot, I was stuck on the android boot animation. 2nd reboot, I could not power on at all.

I must insert the SD card with CWM on it to power on and of course it takes me through CWM again. I've tried wiping system and data and reflashing but still not able to power on without SD card. If anyone has any suggestions for me I would be thankful.
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Did you format system data and cache?
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
1) Yes, I tried that at some point. Should try again first formatting system data and cache and then flashing? Do I have to wipe anything else before flashing?

2) Do I have to follow the instructions under "Q: I want to install it manually / I want ext4 support" in first page while in CWM with ADude's posted method a few post above mine?
[Nook Color Android Development] gallahad2000:
Powered through a manual install and now it works.

1.Install android sdk to a really simple directory (C:\and\ works for me) from here http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

-It requires java SDK but i'll prompt you halfway through

2.Start the SDK and install the SDK tools (no longer installed by default) adb will be in C:\and\platform-tools <-where you should place all the files to be adb pushed

3.Get adb wireless widget from the market

4.start that baby up!

5.Use command prompt (the crappy text DOS prompt), you can find it under accessories

6.Type "cd/" to go to C:

7.Type "cd and" enter "cd platform-tools" enter (don't try cut/paste that's wayyy too advanced for command prompt!)

8.Type the command on adb wireless to connect to the NC

9.Install busybox (after renaming the binary file "busybox") by following the instructions here: http://nookdevs.com/Busybox

10.Follow the instructions in the OP to have busybox push the files to the NC (remember to put the files in the same directory as adb and work from that directory in command prompt so you can avoid any problems)
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Did you see the part where I said:

and then gave a link ?

If you did not read the link, then you do not have a method.

I did not post a method, I answered a question.

At the bottom of the post I gave a link to Faceman66's method.

Here it is again:

Faceman66's Complete Method for Installing CM7
[Nook Color Android Development] tablo:
Yep, read through it and many, many other pages. I eventually got it working. I had much better luck with CWM on emmc. Thanks for the help.
[Nook Color Android Development] cmstlist:
I've not had any trouble using 3.0.1.0 to install CM7. With CWR on SD, I took my nandroid of Nookie Froyo, then wiped data, formatted system, applied the CM7 zip, and the gapps. It happily booted up.

In regards to getting 3.0.1.0 onto eMMC, I had to boot to CWR on SD and install the CWR zip from there.
[Nook Color Android Development] swapdotavi:
http://muffinworld.net/android/nookcolor/clockwork/cwmr_3.0.1.0.zip does not seem to work. Does anyone have another place that's hosting the zip?
[Nook Color Android Development] taspankya:
ditto ... link is dead or server is down
[Nook Color Android Development] :zainy::
Is there really no members of the nook community reading this thread willing to upload the zip file for those of us who cannot download it?
[Nook Color Android Development] xDhaha:
Yup. It is down. I need a link as well.

Someone upload it. Your help will be greatly appreciated :)
[Nook Color Android Development] cmstlist:
Attached my copy here. Would have posted it earlier in the day but I can't upload files from Tapatalk ;)

EDIT: Also, this link works:

http://mirrorbrain.cyanogenmod.com/cm/recoveries/recovery-clockwork-3.0.1.0-encore.zip
[Nook Color Android Development] thisoneguy:
Found this mirror in a different thread... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1030227

http://www.mediafire.com/?7pw23q1p8i17wmk
[Nook Color Android Development] travisn000:
I was running HC on emmc and recently flashed phiremod 6.0 using CWR from SD... all went well and I decided I wanted to install CWR internally. For some reason I am unable to get CWR to install; I've tried using ROM manager, as well as flashing it using a CWR sdcard with a flashable zip as linked in the OP:

http://muffinworld.net/android/nookcolor/clockwork/cwmr_3.0.1.0.zip

IIRC I had formatted a few partitions to ext4 to install HC.. (I'm not sure how to check this..) Phiremod installed fine on my existing HC partitions (I did wipe everything first). Any ideas on why I can't install CWR to emmc?

I also tried following the instruction for adb CWR push in as listed on the OP (completed with NO errors), but I still don't get CWR when I try to boot into it via shutdown options, ROM manager, or by using hardware keys at boot. When I tried to pull the recovery.log via adb I get an error that it doesn't exist... please help!

Thanks!

EDIT: well, I think I may have killed my nook... I re-tried pushing CWR again via adb; It seemed to go smooth and without errors, but when I hit reboot, it powered off and will not power up again!? I'm going to leave it on the charger overnight... maybe my battery stats were off (it read 30% when I rebooted)

Edit 2: ...maybe all hope isn't lost:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=11437545
[Nook Color Android Development] Lint6:
So is the lockup glitch when wiping data going to be fixed at all?
[Nook Color Android Development] iceflow420:
Ok, I can't seem to get this to install. I followed the directions in OP, installing the kernal also, but when I go to Rom Manager and reboot to recovery it reboots right back into android.

I'm running phiremod 5.?, the nook screen does sleep when I adb'd into it to do the manual install. Could this be the problem or something else?
[Nook Color Android Development] j4mm3r:
Hi nemith,

Question: I build recovery from the CM sources... is this any different?

Question: Whats the kernel for? Is it the stock B&N kernel or one of dalingrin's?

Thanks
[Nook Color Android Development] 18.4009:
Same issue here. Flashed the update with clockwork recovery and when I try to produce a backup I get the error that it cant mount system.
[Nook Color Android Development] davidukfl:
spent all afternoon trying to get adb to talk to my device with no luck, then realized there is an option in clockwork to save the log file :rolleyes:
[Nook Color Android Development] nemith:
Nope. As long as you built in the last week or so

It's the kernel we bundle with CM7. So if you have CM7 it should be identical to that one.

We can't use stock cause it doesn't have ext4 support.
[Nook Color Android Development] nemith:
It could be because of the dual-boot stuff. Recovery only knows about the stock kernel layout (which we use for CM7 and the rest of the rom).

Can you do a 'adb busybox ls -l /dev/block'.

Also try manually installing the kernel from the front page.
[Nook Color Android Development] newellj79:
Now that I have flashed this version should i be able to flash cm7 nightlies off a non ext4 sd card. That is, boot into recovery without using the ext4 partitioned card that we all had to use to install cm7, and install off the sd card i use for everything else?
[Nook Color Android Development] faceman66:
That's the idea. :)
[Nook Color Android Development] newellj79:
Backing up right now. Works great! Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] KitF:
PS: I fixed the "unable to mount /system" by doing the manual instructions to replace just the kernel.
[Nook Color Android Development] davidukfl:
I'd do the manual way but I can't get ADB working, I had to root an incredible and evo last week so all my drivers are jacked up.

Is there a way to flash the new kernel from within CW?

The only real reason I'm even putting CWrecovery on this is to flash this kernel:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=925451

edit: finally got my ADB sorted, i'll try manually doing this